TravisBickle62:Carlin was brand, like Coca Cola or Pepsi ... he did a good job of managing his brand.

You say that as if it's a slight. Everyone with good business sense does this. Comedy, just like professional wrestling, or any form of entertainment. You are your brand. You stay true to that brand. You market yourself the best way possible.

/seen George Carlin live thrice at the Ryman. All-time favorite comedian.

Replica:Surprised by all the Louie hate. I would have figured him to be Fark's favorite, since the userbase has a lot in common with him.

I listen to a lot of stand up and I think he's funny but my problem with him is two fold. First, he doesn't quite have the humor to story mix right yet. He'll go down a rabbit hole with a story and you'll end up feeling more "damn" than "lol". Second, if he's trying to mimic Carlin he lacks the social commentary hard edge that Carlin had in spades. He needs to form a political ideology and understand that he's there to give voice to our collective anger at all the bullshiat we see every day and don't/can't comment on, but make it humorous at the same time. That's what made Carlin great.

Quantum Apostrophe:ecmoRandomNumbers: I just don't find him funny anymore. His discriptions of his sexual experiences (which seems to be most of his act) are a great appetite suppressant.

Was never, ever even remotely funny. The schlubby out-of-shape middle-aged man schtick I could see coming a week ahead of time."I'm old! I'm fat! Look at my belly! Being married sucks! Ugh!"/Whenever I hear "Louis CK", I reach for my revolver//To stick it in my mouth

Fail in Human Form:Replica: Surprised by all the Louie hate. I would have figured him to be Fark's favorite, since the userbase has a lot in common with him.

I listen to a lot of stand up and I think he's funny but my problem with him is two fold. First, he doesn't quite have the humor to story mix right yet. He'll go down a rabbit hole with a story and you'll end up feeling more "damn" than "lol". Second, if he's trying to mimic Carlin he lacks the social commentary hard edge that Carlin had in spades. He needs to form a political ideology and understand that he's there to give voice to our collective anger at all the bullshiat we see every day and don't/can't comment on, but make it humorous at the same time. That's what made Carlin great.

He's not trying to be Carlin. He's not political at all.

And his stories are great.

I laugh more at Louis' act than I ever did at Carlin's, and I'm a big fan of both.

His show depresses the crap outta me but when he was talking about 20 year olds thinking they were too interesting to get bad jobs, that was tearing up funny as all heck."Because you're 20 years old & you have no idea how the World works. You think you deserve better - you think you're too...interesting...of a person to have a crappy job. Yes, your job sucks, that's why we gave it to YOU, because you're 20 and have no skills."

I don't love him or hate him. My friends give me shiat about not liking him like you guys are dumping on some people here (but, granted, some people are being a bit... hyperbolic in their dislike.)

What I've said about him is that he keeps me chuckling the entire time, but never makes me just bust out. Patton Oswalt is the opposite for me, I'll have long dry spells with him and then go "okaaaay, we need some funny" but then some things of his will just blow me away.

Brian Regan is consistently good, and a favorite among comics. I quite like Maria Bamford, I actually got to see her in Washington, NC of all places, and she signed pictures of her character from Word Girl for my kids. As new comics go, man, Kyle Kinane makes me laugh a lot. If you don't know his stuff, please check it out. And of course Eddie Izzard, Glorious is, well... y'know... Oh, and, y'know what, Dave Attel's Comedy Central special was fantastic. Nothing he's done since has been as good for me, though. Poor Greg Giraldo, always funny, never a big success. Oh, man, and people talk crap about Katt Williams, but sometimes he slays me. For really old stuff, I actually quite like Bill Cosby. Mitch Hedberg got pretty popular, so it embarrasses me to mention him, but I spent a lot of time as a high school freshman getting his delivery down.

I do hear that Louis C.K. is very, very quick on his feet though, that he doesn't go out with a list of jokes, he just has a set of themes in mind that he just runs with, so that's pretty cool. He just doesn't do it for me, though.

Quantum Apostrophe:ecmoRandomNumbers: I just don't find him funny anymore. His discriptions of his sexual experiences (which seems to be most of his act) are a great appetite suppressant.

Was never, ever even remotely funny. The schlubby out-of-shape middle-aged man schtick I could see coming a week ahead of time."I'm old! I'm fat! Look at my belly! Being married sucks! Ugh!"/Whenever I hear "Louis CK", I reach for my revolver//To stick it in my mouth

Ugh, flawless trolling. I can't even resist. You're reducing his act to something trite when it's in fact incredibly unique. The subjects may be similar, but nothing else is.

TravisBickle62:The greatest comedian of all time is a guy who does stand up once in a great while in a country-western bar on the outskirts of Dallas, he never reveals his name, but you don't know dick about comedy if you haven't seen one of his shows. Maybe 500 people in the whole world have seen him.

Quantum Apostrophe:rprygro: Ugh, flawless trolling. I can't even resist. You're reducing his act to something trite when it's in fact incredibly unique. The subjects may be similar, but nothing else is.

Because it's impossible to sincerely have that opinion.... You're next on the revolver, I hope? It's a Luger. Cost a fortune to have it restored. Go with style.

Of course it's possible if you're trying to be inflammatory. Which you obviously are. Keep it up, tiger! You're doing real good.

Replica:Surprised by all the Louie hate. I would have figured him to be Fark's favorite, since the userbase has a lot in common with him.

You have to remember this is Fark. Louie C.K. is famous now, so many farkers who thought he was cool back when he was hacking it out on the road playing half-empty clubs in Burrito Queef, New Mexico now think he's an unfunny hack who sold out and they never liked him.

His stuff hasn't always been my cup of tea, but he's had some funny moments, and some of the stuff he did writing for Chris Rock was flat-out great. Plus, it's always nice when comedians throw some love to Carlin and Pryor, who were easily the two most influential comedians to ever live.

dutchoven69:There was one bit he did though, about chasing down Billy Ray Cyrus, grabbing "that fruity pony tail of his and putting a shotgun in his mouth like a big black cock of death..."

I mean, to each his own and everything but c'mon, how the hell is that not funny? Dated maybe, but shiat the guy died like twenty years ago.

Here, it's buried somewhere here: Link (new window)

I mean, sure that's funny but I don't see how that translate to fark since he died 5 years before fark even began. I guess the same thing could be said for sam kinnison and fark. I guess Hicks has more fark worthy references?

stoli n coke:Replica: Surprised by all the Louie hate. I would have figured him to be Fark's favorite, since the userbase has a lot in common with him.

You have to remember this is Fark. Louie C.K. is famous now, so many farkers who thought he was cool back when he was hacking it out on the road playing half-empty clubs in Burrito Queef, New Mexico now think he's an unfunny hack who sold out and they never liked him.

His stuff hasn't always been my cup of tea, but he's had some funny moments, and some of the stuff he did writing for Chris Rock was flat-out great. Plus, it's always nice when comedians throw some love to Carlin and Pryor, who were easily the two most influential comedians to ever live.

I understand that people may not like him or think he's especially great, and I have no real vested interest in making other people like him, but most of the complaints leveled against him here are way off base. These people are either trolling or have never actually watched any of his material.

Quantum Apostrophe:ecmoRandomNumbers: I just don't find him funny anymore. His discriptions of his sexual experiences (which seems to be most of his act) are a great appetite suppressant.

Was never, ever even remotely funny. The schlubby out-of-shape middle-aged man schtick I could see coming a week ahead of time."I'm old! I'm fat! Look at my belly! Being married sucks! Ugh!"/Whenever I hear "Louis CK", I reach for my revolver//To stick it in my mouth

rprygro:TravisBickle62: The greatest comedian of all time is a guy who does stand up once in a great while in a country-western bar on the outskirts of Dallas, he never reveals his name, but you don't know dick about comedy if you haven't seen one of his shows. Maybe 500 people in the whole world have seen him.

I read the thread and watched all the linked vids before watching TFV, and I'm now wondering if anyone else laughed as uproariously as I did when Louis referred that Dick Cheney-lookin' guy as "not a lizard".

/got a little misty near the end; as others said, you can really see how much George meant to him...//Only 1 more Louie this season... :(

TravisBickle62:The greatest comedian of all time is a guy who does stand up once in a great while in a country-western bar on the outskirts of Dallas, he never reveals his name, but you don't know dick about comedy if you haven't seen one of his shows. Maybe 500 people in the whole world have seen him.

Also, he doesn't drink beer often, but when he does he prefers Dos Equis.